And this is the chapter, that I sadly say, will end everything. I don't know if I'm happy or sad or whatever. Anyways, I had to start the chapter with Rukia mentioning Uryu dying since that was too good to leave out. Also, there's a quick snippet with Captain Hitsugaya and Naori and the rest follows. Enjoy the very last chapter!!!!!

Reunited Forever

"That was the last time I ever saw him. He married, of course, and inherited his millions. But the crash of '29 hit his interests hard and he put a pistol in his mouth or so I have read." Rukia said as she recalled Uryu's death once Naori and Hitsugaya came back in.

'Great! Made it in time for the best part!' Naori thought with satisfaction.

"Once Carpathia had docked back on land, it was when I first gazed up at that tall statue and decided to start all over. I found my little sister again after thinking she was dead. I adopted a new name and that new name was Kurosaki Rukia." Rukia finished.

"We never found anything on Ichigo. There's no record of him at all." Mizuiro pointed out at the end.

"No there wouldn't be, would there?" Rukia said as her voice silently cracked under a breath and tears were forming at her eyelids. "And I've never spoke of him until now. Not to anyone…not even to Kaien. A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Kurosaki Ichigo and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved…I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now…only in my memory."

On the Top Deck…

Another pair of submersibles rose from the ocean and onto the deck of the boat. They were dripping wet and tired crewmembers lingered out of the machines. Their faces only showing signs of dissatisfaction and sorrow that they were to give up the search for the diamond. Keigo solemnly gazed on at the entire process, watching what he had pined for being all thrown away. Suddenly, somebody tapped him in the shoulders and Keigo gazed back to see Naori gazing sadly at him.

"Why…if it isn't Rukia Shiba's little sister?" Keigo said, putting on a cheerful face. "What brings a lovely lady like you down here to the deck?"

"I'm sorry." Naori softly said and she too gazed out at the submersibles.

Keigo's fake smile faded once he noticed Naori had him all figured out. He gazed back out onto the deck and pulled out a large cigar from his pocket. "You know…I was saving this for when I found the diamond." And with that, Keigo chucked the celebratory cigar right out into the ocean. He gazed back at Naori with a dead serious look on his face. "Three years and I thought of nothing except Titanic. But I never got it. I never let it in."

Naori didn't say anything and she just slowly shook her head. Keigo nodded and he made his way back into the lab. Naori's eyes followed the man back into the lab before she herself gazed out into the open ocean. It was dark and murky again, but peaceful and serene. She let the wind blew right by her until she felt a hand touch her shoulders.

"You seem to enjoy peaceful atmospheres." Hitsugaya remarked and he led her to a nearby bench.

"It's better than thrashing around in the water and-" Naori tried to reply back but someone soon cut her off.

"Captain Hitsugaya sir! Should we start course and head back?" One of the officers asked Hitsugaya and barged in on the both of them.

"No…we'll start course tomorrow." Hitsugaya ordered and sent the man away.

"You know…I never imagined you'll be a captain of your own vessel." Naori murmured in a soft voice. "You never seemed to show an ambition like that when you were going to go to America."

"Truthfully, I wasn't really planning on anything once I made it there." Hitsugaya admitted. "I was really along for the ride with my friends."

"You mean Ichigo and Renji?" Naori asked. "I'm guessing you met them before Titanic. Why did they want to go?"

"Ichigo just wanted to go home since his drawings weren't really selling well. He was planning for trying to make something in America. That was…until he met your sister. And Renji…I think he wanted to get away from somebody. Run off somewhere" Hitsugaya replied. "What about your sister?"

"Rukia…" Naori mused on and gazed back at the lab where she watched her sister wheel off back to her room. "She never wanted to go on Titanic at all. She never wanted to be on that ship…but I guess her mind changed when she met him. I noticed her face had changed when she first met Ichigo."

"So that was why you were pestering me to tell you all about Ichigo." Hitsugaya mused on. "What about you then? Were you just along for the ride or did you have a big dream when you got to America?"

Naori closed her eyes and she rested her head against the shoulders of her friend. "Back then…" Naori quietly sighed out. "Back then…I really didn't care much for what I was going to do. It was stupid to dream about something so far away. For me…it's not the destination that matters. It's the journey."

Hitsugaya took in all those words that have been uttered from his friend's mouth. He thought all the way back to his adventures on the ship. The journey that he and every other person had experienced on that ship. How the journey brought Ichigo and Rukia together and made social classes clash. How it brought Hitsugaya and Naori to meet one another. When the ship sank, it took away an important person away from all their lives. And all those taken lives continued to affect the survivors forever. And how that same journey made everyone to start anew once they made it to the other world.

"You know…maybe you're right." Hitsugaya said and turned to look back at Naori.

Too bad Naori had already fallen asleep during Hitsugaya's reminiscing. She nestled her head into Hitsugaya's shoulder and leaned her resting body towards him. Her shining face heaved in and out quick breaths of air. She didn't seem to stir when Hitsugaya tried to nudge her awake.

'Always a heavy sleeper.' Hitsugaya thought and left the sleeping girl leaning on his shoulder. He gazed back up at the clear dark sky with the bright stars glimmering through the darkness. The brightest was the crescent moon and it seemed to be a bit larger than usual. It shone down on the pair, highlighting Hitsugaya's snowy hair and Naori's pale face. It's reflection on the ocean surface made it as if lights were coming out from the ocean itself. The setting felt so peaceful…so peaceful that he felt he could be falling asleep as well.

On Deck…

Rukia slowly made her way across the open deck floor. All the submersibles, that had been searching the ocean, had been brought up above the ocean and packed away on the boat. The deck was scrubbed clean that every star on the sky had its own reflection on the wooden floor. Rukia made sure to not make a noise as she was making her way across the squeaky clean floor. She didn't want to wake up everyone who had fallen asleep on board, especially her little sister that she found not too far away sleeping against someone she found oddly familiar. Rukia felt her bare feet made no noise and her flapping white night gown was the thing making the only noise. She felt a cool ocean breeze slip through her short hair and linger on in her nightclothes.

Rukia stopped walking once she made it to the very edge at the back of the boat they were on. She grabbed a cold metal pole with her withered hands and slowly eased herself up the railings with her bare feet resting on the first bar. It didn't seem much of a danger since she done more dangerous stuff than this. Rukia gazed on and on at the murky waters that were eager to push the boat away with its small waves slapping itself against the boat. Rukia moved her attention away from the waves and to the large bright crescent moon on the dark waters. It's shining reflection glimmering right in front of her.

Rukia reached into the pocket of her nightgown and brought out a shining jewel in her open hand. The same Heart of the Ocean necklace that she only worn once on her neck. The large heart shaped blue diamond glimmered as the light touched its surface and the other diamonds sparkled as well. The silver chain and the entire necklace were still tightly bound together and no signs of rust or anything like that appeared at all. Rukia could still remember how she found this necklace again.

[Flashback…]

After consoling her little sister, Rukia rushed Naori away to get away from the dock and to start their new lives. Before going off, Rukia gazed one last time at the huge statue in front of her. She shoved her hands into her pocket. Something felt strange in there. Rukia pulled out the diamond necklace right from the soggy pocket of the coat she was wearing. It didn't seemed to be damaged at all from the sinking. But how did that get in there? Rukia thought long and hard about the necklace and about who gave it to her. She was about to toss it away…but she couldn't. She couldn't at all…

[End of Flashback…]

Rukia's small gentle fingers lingered around the silver chain of the necklace and she touched the sparkling blue diamond. After that, she closed her hand around it and dropped it into the ocean. It made a little splash as it hit the water right in the empty space of the reflection of the moon. After that, it just sunk and gradually disappeared into the dark ocean. The Heart of the Ocean was back where it belonged.

Rukia sighed in content and back away from the railings. She quietly walked back to her room, careful enough to not disturb her sleeping sister only a few feet away. Once Rukia was back in her room, she took one final gaze at the photos in her room. All of them showing the things she said she would do when she first started talking to Ichigo. She rode a horse not in a side straddle and she became a well-accomplished actress among many other things. Rukia slid comfy into her bed and gradually fell fast asleep.

The wrecks of the ruined Titanic blurred all the way back to when Titanic was newly made. Where the walls were freshly painted and everything was never used. Wandering into the Grand Staircase, where everyone was there to greet her. Everyone that had been on Titanic was there, proudly standing in crowds of the Grand Staircase. The crewmembers, the band, Renji, Urahara, Kyoraku, and plenty of others were also there.

Rukia walked through the crowd where a path was left there to guide her. She wore a brilliant snowy white dress. Simple and yet so elegant as her dress trailed out from her. Her dark raven hair was left undone and it freely swayed as she moved. Rukia slowly walked through the path of the crowd where Renji greeted her with a smile at the entrance of the staircase. She gracefully placed her hand on the railings and walked up the staircase where he was waiting for her.

An orange haired man stood waiting at the very top. He turned around from where he was and smiled down at Rukia. He lent out a hand and Rukia grasped onto his hand as she walked up. Ichigo smiled at her and he pulled her close to him. Both leaned forward and gave each other a passionate kiss. Their hands stayed interlocking one another and this time, they never separated. Not even when the crowd all around them were clapping and cheering for the two. Not even when other people were tearing up over their joyful reunion.

Rukia stayed with her hand still gripping onto his and herself kissing him with her soft lips. She was back with the man she loved and he was there with her again. She would always remember this feeling with Ichigo…and it will last…forever…

And this is officially the end of this fic. The ending chapter where the entire story ends. I felt like tearing up when I had to write up the very end with Rukia with Ichigo. It was too sad…yet so beautiful! It was so hard to decide what the final words were going to be. Also, if you're thinking if Rukia is dreaming or if she's dead. I'm going to go with the original film and leave it for you to decide.

Also, don't go away so quickly!! There's also a special chapter and bloopers! Yes, I made bloopers!! I'm also going to do a special mention to ALL of my reviewers that have always reviewed for this story!! That's…going to take some time…

All this in the next chapter!! But still review for this one and maybe I'll include your name on the list!